WordPress 3.0 is out. Should you upgrade?

If you don’t selfhost your blog, skip this post. It talks about a common problem all of us, selfhosters have. But if you don’t selfhost, you’re immune to this disease, which has as symptoms: anxiety attacks, dizzy spells, recurring nightmares, adversity to “check for upgrades” or even “admin menus” buttons, and above all: fierce regret [...]

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Blogging: The ultimate crowd sourced knowledge management?

In my tutorial series “Blogging 101 – Starting a blog from scratch” I have already covered the basic question many nonprofit organisations ask themselves: “Does my organisation need a blog?” There was one issue I did not highlight, though: Blogging is a kind of crowd sourced knowledge management. What do I mean by that? An [...]

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Blogger now features a true preview

For years, bloggers cursed the lack of a real preview function in Blogger, one of the most popular blog platforms. After you wrote a blogpost, the ‘old’ preview button used to bring up a pop-up screen which gave a ‘kinda’ preview of your post, which did not take into account most styling options you had [...]

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Blogger now features a template designer

Last night, Blogger announced their online template designer.

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Love is… debugging the WiFi together

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

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Automatic mobile themes for your blogs

More and more people browse blogs from their mobile devices. While you can view any website from your iPhone or Blackberry, the pages will appear with a very small font, and the whole thing will look very cramped, unless if the website supports a mobile theme. Only then, the site will appear suitable for easy [...]

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Basic SEO advice from the expert

For anyone taking blogging seriously, “SEO” or “Search Engine Optimization” is serious stuff. SEO is the craftmanship involved in improving the volume and quality of traffic search engines generate to your website or blog. As I described in my “Understanding the traffic on your blog” primer, a large part of your visitors stumble upon your [...]

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Love is… buying her a domain

Cartoon inspired by the work of Kim Casali

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Securing your WordPress blog

Bloggers have rushed to secure their selfhosted WordPress blogs after the recent massive hacks on shared hosts. I was one of them, even though only one of my blogs was affected. I spent hours browsing, looking for good resources, common knowledge, and solid tips to form a list of quitessentials on WordPress security. I also [...]

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Automatically monitor malicious file changes on your WordPress blog

During the the latest spree of hacks in April and May, hackers dropped a malicious .PHP script on the root directory of selfhosted blogs. The script changed all .PHP files, adding one line of code which redirected visitors to a virus-infested site, and then deleted itself. There was anything between a day and an hour [...]

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How to block users uploading malware to your blog?

Many shared hosts don’t protect you from users uploading and executing malicious code to your website. Here is how to close that loop hole for hackers.

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